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Page 74 of 941954 · PDF PAGE 499
… then open to us to suppose that Tahuti, Thoth, Hermes, Mercury, Loki, Hanuman and the rest are identical, and that the diversity of the name and the series of exploits is due merely to the accidents of time and space. But it is at least equally plausible to suggest that these Gods are different individuals, although of the identical Order of Being, characteristics and function. Very much as if one took Drake, Frobisher, Raleigh, Hood, Blake, Rodney and Nelson, as seen through the mists of history, tradition, legend and plain mythopoeia. Add a …
1910 · PDF PAGE 120
… or Superconsciousness. The three last stages Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi, which are so intimately associated, are classed under the one name of Samydma.* Thus meditation should rise from the object to the object- less. Firstly the external cause of sensations should be per- ceived, then their internal motions, and lastly the reaction of the mind. By thus doing will the Yogi control the waves of the mind, and the waters of the great Ocean will cease to be disturbed by their rise and fall, and they will become still and full of rest, so that lik…
1910 · PDF PAGE 120
… or Superconsciousness. The three last stages Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi, which are so intimately associated, are classed under the one name of Samydma.* Thus meditation should rise from the object to the object- less. Firstly the external cause of sensations should be per- ceived, then their internal motions, and lastly the reaction of the mind. By thus doing will the Yogi control the waves of the mind, and the waters of the great Ocean will cease to be disturbed by their rise and fall, and they will become still and full of rest, so that lik…
1922 · PDF PAGE 71
…w, it comes to nothing. But heroin does all that morphia does. It’s a derivative of morphia, you know—Diacetyl-Morphine is the technical name. Only instead of bathing you in philosophical inertia, you are as keen as mustard on carrying out your ideas, I’ve never taken any myself. I suppose we might as well start now.”
1929 · PDF PAGE 107
Such a word was indeed the lost Tetragrammaton \ It is said that at the utterance of this name the Universe crashes into dis¬ solution. Let the Magician eamestly seek this Lost Word, for its pronunciation is synonymous with the accomplish- ment of the Great Work. 1 2 In this matter of the efficacity of words there are again two formulæ exactly opposite in nature. A word may become potent and terrible by virtue of constant répétition. It is in this way that most religions gain strength. At first the statement “So and so is God” excites no intere…
1907 · PDF PAGE 26
…- ness ts to acknowledge the notable part your ladyship played in the conception of thts masterpiece by the insertion of as much of your name as my lawyers will permit me. I am your ladyship~’s most humble and obedient servant, ALEISTER CROWLE ¥. ? DEDICATIO MAJOR, My Friends, To you, Eastern of the Easterns, who have respectively given up all to find Truth ; you, Jinawaravansa,’ who esteemed the Yellow Robe 1 A Siamese prince who became a Buddhist monk, 20
1929 · PDF PAGE 89
…take a perverse pleasure in playing practical jokes on the reader. In one point, above ail, the identity is absolute — there is no third name in literature which can be put in the same class. The point is this: In a single sentence is combined sublimity and enthusiasm with sneering bitterness, scepticism, grossness and scorn. It is evidently the suprême enjoyment to strike a chord composed of as many conflicting éléments as possible. The pleasure seems to be derived from gratifying the sense of power, the power to compel every possible element …
1905 · PDF PAGE 183
… ; Save only that it quenches this desire. Let me pass out beyond the city gate.’ We should like to give other examples, but we can only name some of those pieces that seem to us the most remarkable. Such are ‘ An Ill Dream,’ of which the glowing imagery seizes and holds fast the vagueness of shifting impressions ; a ‘ Farewell of Paracelsus to Aprile,’ containing some fine lyric flights ; ‘ The Initiation,’ and ‘ Succubus,’ a record of fearful obsessions in a metre which, in spite of a few unaccountable lapses, we think extremely effective.” —…
1954 · PDF PAGE 83
…urse, you should put down the words that are bound to come in your way in any case: numbers like II, 13, 31, 37 and their multiples; the names of God and the principal angels; the planetary and geomantic names; and your own private and particular name with its branches. After that, let your work on the Astral Plane guide you.
1954 · PDF PAGE 48
…y occurred to me, with a sort of joy, "But I am Mercury." I put it into Latin-Mercurius sum, and suddenly something struck me, a sort of nameless reaction, which said: "That's not quite right." Like a flash it came to me to put it into Greek, which gave me Hermes Eimi, and adding that up rapidly, I got the number 418, with all the marvellous correspondences which had been so abundantly useful to me in the past. (See Equinox of the Gods, p. 138.) My troubles disappeared like a flash of lightning. Now to answer your questions ad seriatim; it is q…
1996 · PDF PAGE 91
…s Book, we now know that the centre is everywhere, the circumference nowhere; that “Every man and every woman is a star”, a “Khabs,” the name of the house of Hadit; that “The word of Sin is Restriction.” To us, then, “evil” is a relative term; it is “that which hinders one from fulfilling his true Will.” (E.g., rain is “good” or “bad” for the farmer accord ing to the requirements of his crops.) The Osirian Rituals inculcating self-sacrifice to an abstract ideal, mutilation to appease an ex cathedra' morality, fidelity to a priori formulas, etc…
1922 · PDF PAGE 24
…from infinity, from a state of mind enormously more vital and conscious than anything we know of otherwise, although one can’t give it a name, to discover that this nameless thought of nothingness was in reality two black vast spheres in which I saw myself. I had a thought of some vision in a story of the middle ages about a wizard, and slowly, slowly, I slid up out of the deep to recognise that these two spheres were just two eyes. And then it occurred to me—the thought was in the nature of a particularly
1996 · PDF PAGE 201
… Gods; and let Asar be with Isa, who also are one. But they are not of me. Let Asar be the adorant, Isa the sufferer; Hoor in his secret name and splendour is the Lord initiating. 50. There is a word to say about the Hierophantic task. Behold! there are three ordeals in one, and it may be given in three ways. The gross must pass through fire; let the fine be tried in intellect, and the lofty chosen ones in the highest. Thus ye have star & star, system & system; let not one know well the other! 51. There are four gates to one palace; the floor o…
1906 · PDF PAGE 208
…ublic scribes for a few pice in the native bazaar. As to “ Babus” (Babu, I may mention, is the equivalent to our ‘‘Mister,”’ and not the name of a savage tribe), Mr. Chesterton, from his Brixton Brahmaloka, may look forth and see that the ‘‘ Babu” cannot understand Western ideas; but a distinguished civil servant in the Madras Presidency, second wrangler in a very good year, assured me that he had met a native whose mathematical knowledge was superior to that of the average senior wrangler, and that he had met several others who approached that…
1929 · PDF PAGE 3
… but it is certain that he did not appreciate them. For he settled quietly down to discover a fact which no one had previously observed; namely, that it was very beautiful at night. The man was steeped in Highland fantasy, and he revealed London as Wrapt in a soft haze of mystic beauty, a fairy tale of delicacy and wistfulness. It is here that the Fates showed partiality; for London should rather have been painted by Goya. The city is monstrous and misshapen; its mystery is not a brooding, but a conspiracy. And these truths are evident above al…
1954 · PDF PAGE 498
…ster" or messenger of some such person , more or less as Aiwass describes himself as "the minister of Hoor-paar-kraat ." (AL , I: 7) His name implies some such function ; for G.B.R. is Mercury between the Two Greater Lights, Sol and Luna . This seems to mean that he is something more than a lunar or terrestrial archangel ; as he would appear to be from 777. (There now! That was my private fiend again- the Demon of Digression. Back to our Gods!) 777 itself, to say nothing of The Golden Bough and the Good Lord knows how many other similar monumen…
1910 · PDF PAGE 347
…. I have been trying to read this book for a week, but the rapidly recurring necessity to appear on the stage of “Pan, a comedy,” in the name-part, has interfered, and I have not yet finished it. But it speaks well for the book that I have not been too bored by it. I like both Hedonia and Alcyone, for I know them; but Memnones seems to lack cleanliness of line, and one understands Ombricius so little that one loses interest in his fortunes, Books III and IV. Book III did rather cheer me. But of course one knew all along that the Eruption was to…
1910 · PDF PAGE 347
…. I have been trying to read this book for a week, but the rapidly recurring necessity to appear on the stage of “Pan, a comedy,” in the name-part, has interfered, and I have not yet finished it. But it speaks well for the book that I have not been too bored by it. I like both Hedonia and Alcyone, for I know them; but Memnones seems to lack cleanliness of line, and one understands Ombricius so little that one loses interest in his fortunes, Books III and IV. Book III did rather cheer me. But of course one knew all along that the Eruption was to…
1913 · PDF PAGE 307
…yrs took consolation in the prisons of the Czesars, and won over to their belief even their warders and their executioners. It is in the name of charity that St. Martin of Tours pro- tested against the torture of the Priscillians,1 and separated 1 The Priscillianist heresy was disturbing the Church, especially in Spain. The Emperor Maximus, a Spaniard, was inclined to put it down with a strong hand and confiscate the heretics’ property. The Gallic clergy hounded him on, and the Councils of Bordeaux and Saragossa encouraged him. Two Spanish prie…
1913 · PDF PAGE 307
…yrs took consolation in the prisons of the Czesars, and won over to their belief even their warders and their executioners. It is in the name of charity that St. Martin of Tours pro- tested against the torture of the Priscillians,1 and separated 1 The Priscillianist heresy was disturbing the Church, especially in Spain. The Emperor Maximus, a Spaniard, was inclined to put it down with a strong hand and confiscate the heretics’ property. The Gallic clergy hounded him on, and the Councils of Bordeaux and Saragossa encouraged him. Two Spanish prie…